Host | Berlin, Germany Glasgow, Scotland, UK Edinburgh, Scotland (diving) Gleneagles, Scotland (golf) |
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Nations | 53 |
Athletes | 3,843 |
Sport | 7 |
Events | 187 |
Dates | 2–12 August |
Website | europeanchampionships |
The 2018 European Championships were the first edition of the European Championships. It was a multi-sport event which took place in Berlin, Germany, and Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom (with Edinburgh hosting the diving events and Gleneagles the golf) from 2 to 12 August 2018. Around 1,500 athletes competed at the European Athletics Championships in Berlin, whilst at the same time more than 3,000 took part in the other championships in Glasgow. Each European Championship will be organised by the respective federation and host city.
Most of the events took place in Glasgow and its close surroundings:
Two championships events were hosted at venues in different Scottish cities:
The athletics championships event were held in the second major host city, Berlin
On 1 August 2018, at the "Great Big Opening Party" in Glasgow, a new European Championship Trophy was unveiled, to be awarded to the nation achieving the most gold medals across all seven sports during the Championships. It was presented by Katherine Grainger, Emma Fredh and Angelina Melnikova on behalf of the seven European federations involved in the event. [1] On 12 August, the trophy was presented to the leading nation on the overall table, Russia, in a ceremony in Glasgow.
The following Championships have been brought together in the 2018 European Championships:
52 nations, plus Authorised Neutral Athletes (Russian athletes competing in the European Athletics Championships under the European Athletics Flag) participated at the European Championships, including:
The original schedule was released in February 2017. [6] [7] The schedule was updated in June 2017 based on the Glasgow ticket schedule [8] [9] and again in March 2018 when the Berlin timetable was released. [10]
● | Event Competitions | 1 | Number of Gold Medal Events |
August | 2 Thu | 3 Fri | 4 Sat | 5 Sun | 6 Mon | 7 Tue | 8 Wed | 9 Thu | 10 Fri | 11 Sat | 12 Sun | Gold medal events | |
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Athletics | ● | 7 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 50 | |||||
Aquatics | Swimming | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 72 | ||||
Diving | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Synchronised Swimming | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
Open Water Swimming | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
Cycling | Track | ● | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 30 | |||||
Road | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
Mountain Bike | 2 | ||||||||||||
BMX | ● | 2 | |||||||||||
Golf | ● | ● | ● | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||
Gymnastics | Men's Artistic Gymnastics | ● | 1 | 6 | 12 | ||||||||
Women's Artistic Gymnastics | ● | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||
Rowing | ● | ● | 9 | 8 | 17 | ||||||||
Triathlon | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
Total gold medal events | 12 | 21 | 24 | 13 | 24 | 17 | 20 | 12 | 19 | 25 | 187 | ||
Cumulative total | 12 | 33 | 57 | 70 | 94 | 111 | 131 | 143 | 162 | 187 |
Each sport maintained its own medal table, [11] but an overall medal table is also maintained, [12] the leader of which won the European Championship trophy. Russia won the inaugural trophy and topped the medal table by gold medals won with 31, whilst co-hosts Great Britain topped the total medals table with 74 medals, 26 of which were gold. A chasing pack consisting of Italy, the Netherlands, co-hosts Germany and France each won over 10 gold medals and 40 medals in total.
* Host nation (Host nations: United Kingdom and Germany)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Russia (RUS) | 31 | 19 | 16 | 66 |
2 | Great Britain (GBR)* | 26 | 26 | 22 | 74 |
3 | Italy (ITA) | 15 | 17 | 28 | 60 |
4 | Netherlands (NED) | 15 | 15 | 13 | 43 |
5 | Germany (GER)* | 13 | 17 | 24 | 54 |
6 | France (FRA) | 13 | 14 | 15 | 42 |
7 | Poland (POL) | 9 | 6 | 6 | 21 |
8 | Ukraine (UKR) | 8 | 12 | 6 | 26 |
9 | Switzerland (SUI) | 8 | 4 | 7 | 19 |
10 | Hungary (HUN) | 7 | 4 | 4 | 15 |
11 | Belgium (BEL) | 6 | 5 | 8 | 19 |
12 | Sweden (SWE) | 6 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
13 | Norway (NOR) | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
14 | Greece (GRE) | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
15 | Belarus (BLR) | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
16 | Spain (ESP) | 3 | 7 | 9 | 19 |
17 | Romania (ROU) | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
18 | Portugal (POR) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
19 | Croatia (CRO) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
20 | Denmark (DEN) | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
Lithuania (LTU) | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | |
22 | Turkey (TUR) | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
– | Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA) [1] | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
23 | Ireland (IRL) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
24 | Iceland (ISL) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Israel (ISR) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
26 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
27 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
28 | Slovenia (SLO) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
29 | Azerbaijan (AZE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Slovakia (SVK) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
32 | Armenia (ARM) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Estonia (EST) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Finland (FIN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (34 entries) | 187 | 188 | 186 | 561 |
^[1] Not included in the official medal table.
In addition, while both the Men's and Women's Gymnastics events included junior competitions in line with previous editions, medals in those competitions are not included within the total.
Official results and standings ec2018results.com
All of Europe's major free-to-air broadcasters televised the European Championships in 2018. [13] [14] The European Broadcasting Union, which holds the broadcast rights on all platforms, has confirmed coverage across the top five markets, BBC in the United Kingdom, ARD/ZDF in Germany, France Télévisions in France, RAI in Italy and TVE in Spain. Other EBU members already signed up include VRT (Belgium), HRT (Croatia), DR (Denmark), YLE (Finland), RTÉ (Ireland), NOS (Netherlands), NRK (Norway), TVP (Poland), RTP (Portugal), SRG SSR (Switzerland) and SVT (Sweden). The level of coverage is also enhanced by a deal with Eurosport. In total, over 40 EBU members have signed agreements as of April 2018. Discussions are ongoing with broadcasters in the remaining territories in Europe, plus other global territories like China, Japan and USA. [15]
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